[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: DD or Gangalf - who is greater?

[Janette]

>
> bboyminn:
>
> As a second best, I think Patrick Stewart would have certainly
> been better than Gambon. It seems as if this is nothing but
> a job to Gambon. He comes, he works, he collects his check,
> and he goes home. In a few interviews, he has made some very
> insensitive remarks regarding fans and the franchise. That
> more than anything told me he doesn't care about these movie
> or his character, it is merely a process by which he earns
> a paycheck. Sad really.
>
> montims:


not to be defending Gambon too much, as I don't like his character in the
movies either, but he is a very good actor, and I think he has very little
patience with interviewers, so some of the remarks he has made are just
jokes which haven't been taken that way.  Also, as to not reading the books,
given the scripts they are working with, he is probably right.  The scripts
differ so much from the books, how would it help having read them?
(Assuming he hasn't, which we can't know for sure...)  The anger and shaking
of Harry were in the script and the direction...  The trio have read the
books, but still have to speak lines that are contrary to their characters,
and act in ways that are different from the book Trio...  What I'm saying is
that I think Gambon is playing the role he is told to play.  And it is just
his job - if it didn't pay his bills, he would be foolish to do it.


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